The graduate and undergraduate programs integrate classroom education with best business practices, technology, and real-world experience. Furthermore, the college aspires to combine the best qualities of teaching and research to actively engage students, faculty and staff to work in close collaboration to expand knowledge.
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==Student Entrepreneurship==
<span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px; text-align: justify;">Our college also arranged a week long faculty development program with Salesforce which stressed on the essentials for business specialists. This training aimed to equip professors with the business skills required to enhance profits of a startup venture. They will further impart this training to budding entrepreneurs in our college.</span>
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==Overview==
==STUDENT ENTREPRENEURSHIP==Velagapudi Ramakrishna Siddhartha Engineering College or VRSEC is a private engineering college located in Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh, India, that offers an undergraduate education and postgraduate education in engineering. The institution is the first private institution to offer engineering education in the united Andhra Pradesh[1] and the first private college to provide PG Programmes in engineering in the state in the year 1977. The college was approved to be an autonomous institution by Acharya Nagarjuna University in the year 1977. The college has about 5700 students, more than 350 faculty ( Faculty with 88 Ph. D.s & 100 pursuing Ph. D.s ), and around 200 technical and supporting staff. Extracurricular opportunities include NCC, NSS, Students Chapters of IEEE, social clubs, and sports & games.
Recently, the entrepreneurship club or E-Club It was inaguarated amidst Accredited by NAAC with an A grade for a lot period of enthusiasam and aspiration. It looks to provide five years with a platform for free exchange CGPA of ideas, 3.17 on four point scale effective from 25-10-2013 and provide resources and opportunities with NBA Accreditation status to nurture ideasall UG programs since 1998.It is still in infancy stage but The establishment of Siddhartha Educational Institutions followed by the optimism surrounding its inception, gives every ideator confidence that their dream can be a reality someday! In addition to providing necessary guidance to budding entrepreneurs through exhaustive workshops about every aspect surrounding startups, the club is aiming to herald a new innovation wave within the college by encouraging everyone to come up with something new! The club is regularly conducting meet ups where you can discuss problems, come up with solutions and maybe even go on to implement them. They are partnering with top establishment of other educational institutions in the country like IIT Bombay which are already famous for their strides in innovationlast 28 years transformed this city into one of the major educational centres.
==FACULTY TRAINING AND INNOVATION==The college is an autonomous college affiliated with the JNTUK, Kakinada. The college offers various UG and PG academic programs leading to the award of degrees such as B.Tech, M.Tech, MCA, and MBA with English as a medium of instruction. The programs are conducted on the semester system and each semester provides for a minimum of 90 instructional days. The regulations in respect of the academic program of study are prepared and approved by the Academic Council, the highest academic body in the college. The curriculum for the program of study is prepared by the respective board of studies and approved by the academic council. After successfully completing the program as per the relevant regulations JNUTK, Kakinada will award the degree.
<span style="font-size: larger;"div><span div style="fonttext-familyalign: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;center">Every year, different branches of VRSEC conducts faculty training programs to train their <br /span></span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: larger;">teaching, technical, innovation and entrepreneurial skills.</spandiv> <span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: larger;">Inorder to improve the scope for innovation and entrepreneurship, the college has come up with research strategies in arenas which have scope for the establishment of successful ventures.In the beginning faculty research on the topic and if the prospects seem promising, students are involved and further steps are taken to shape a endeavour that will address the problem researched. Some of the key areas being researched currently are :</spandiv>
#<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: larger;">An IOT based smart mobile health monitoring systemc</span>#<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: larger;">Tag identification for vehicles by using connected components based segmentation and template matching based recognition</span>#<span styleSTUDENT INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: larger;">College Activity Management System</span>#<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: larger;">Water quality management system through IOT</span>#<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: larger;">Biometric system on face recognition</span>
Velagapudi Ramakrishna Siddhartha Engineering College focuses more on the research and development labs that must come into existence so that they can help students to think out of the box. Also, the institution makes sure that Students are being advised about what are the benefits of starting entrepreneurship. The Siddhartha Academy Also organizes workshops under the guidance of successful entrepreneurs in which students must start their innovative idea. VR Siddhartha Engineering Collge provides Students with #<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: larger;">Personality Development by Science and Humanities Dept.</span>#<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: larger;">ACM Student Chapter by Information Technology.</span>#<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: larger;">UNIVERSITY INDUSTRY PARTNERSHIPMeditation for Human Excellence By English Dept.</span> #<span style=="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: larger;">Athisaya club by electronics and communication dept.</span>
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: larger;"></span><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px; text-align: justify;">Industry partnerships are FACULTY TRAINING AND INNOVATION==The faculty of VR Siddhartha Engineering College always takes the key initiative and provides an environment to bridge start entrepreneurship with the gap between learning and implementing. VR Siddhartha has thus made industry partnerships a very important mission. We are partnering with reputed industries like Amazon, Microsoft,Siemens, UTL technologies to help of students get first hand experience of real time working. Internships have been made compulsory in order to increase the awareness among the latest curriculum and our training and placement department has left no stone unturned in helping students landing next level internship opportunites. We also have partnerships Faculty can team up with software giants entrepreneurs it helps students to be aware of the process like Cyient, how to help all our start your own company and do well. Faculty also knows the benefits of starting entrepreneurship by students get a taste of to make sure that the software culture and decide for themselves whether they enjoy it or notinnovative idea could become real.</span>The facilities provided by the VR Siddhartha Institution are:
#<span style="colorfont-family: rgb(68arial, 68helvetica, 68)sans-serif; font-size: larger;">APSSDC which provides courses for the students from all the branches to learn the new emerging technologies.</span>#<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13larger;">Optional research and Mobile Commerce offered by the institution for students from various branches.3333px</span>#<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; textfont-alignsize: justifylarger;">Our college also arranged a week long faculty development program with Salesforce which stressed on the essentials for business specialists. This training aimed to equip professors with the business skills required to enhance profits of a startup venture. They will further impart this training to budding entrepreneurs in our collegeExtra curricular clubs like NCC/NSS/EWD are offered by various departments.</span>
==Facilitating University-industry collaboration ==
VR Siddhartha Engineering College engages with the outside world and makes sure that student ideas are globally available. The institution provides Students to compete their ideas with the market and create a user-friendly environment to reduce the problem. The institution always provides students with knowledge from the emerging industries that use the latest technology and help the students in developing their idea. VR Siddhartha Academy also organizes workshops on Talent and entrepreneurship and invites the person from Industry to share their experience and knowledge with the students. The institution makes sure that the student ideas are collaborated with the industry and ensure that it becomes real. VR Siddhartha facilitates the following actions
#<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: larger;">Startup Gurukul by Dheeraj Kota in collaboration with CSE dept.</span>
#<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: larger;">Anblicks by Information Technology.</span>
==Regional and Local Economic Development==
VR Siddhartha always ensures that students must provide jobs for the unemployed in order to economic development. Students of this institution share their ideas with the community in order to ensure the development and the rise of technology. The local problems which people face are analyzed and the solutions are acquired by the students. VR Siddhartha has made many achievements with the help of the students who volunteer and come forward to help the people who face difficulties.
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